Austria's Magnus Brunner has found a loophole for tricky questions during his hearing for the EU's top immigration job: "Since I’m not actually in office, I don’t have access to all the information I’d need to answer you comprehensively." Check. Mate. politico.eu/article/europe…

someone on tiktok looked at the voting demographics and this is a map of if only women voted 😭

During the Día de los Muertos, Mexico City local MPs used skeleton makeup while debating the legislative proposals.

Google Gemini tells a user to die!!! 😲 The chat is legit, and you can read and continue it here: g.co/gemini/share/6…

A PhD student used both Claude and Gemini as an AI therapist. She vented her frustrations around getting a cancer diagnosis, and joked about how much it was costing the healthcare system. The difference in responses is staggering.

Obsessed with this colorful modernist Austro-Hungarian railway map from 1913

ngl if an actual military coup got stopped because some legislators managed to get into the parliament building and voted "no" then that's a colossal W for liberalism

helpful visualization of elon musk’s influence over x users compared to the entirety of united states congress:

I want to second that. It is good for you if I disagree with you.

josef kalina Christian Nusser Josef Votzi Sorry, hier: newsflix.at/s/protokoll-ei… trend.at/politik/politi…

Das aktuelle ÖGfE-Abstimmungsmonitoring ist online! Nähere Infos hier: oegfe.at/category/absti…

Trump is likely to grow tired of Musk, as Henry VIII grew tired of Thomas Cromwell. But that will only mean the court of the mad king will get a new buffoon. bit.ly/4ifnD3n

What is it about moderately smart people that makes them completely oblivious to how overhyped current AI is?

This is bad, actually

If the Trump administration didn't calculate the "tariff rates" other countries are supposedly imposing on us by using the formula trade deficit/imports, it's an amazing coincidence that every single country's "tariff rate" is equal to trade deficit/imports.

Gary Cohn, the Prince That Was Promised

This map by @statista shows the year in which deaths outnumbered (will outnumber) births.

Margaritas and “gang tattoos” – photo ops gone off the rails. Authoritarian regimes use propaganda to distract from the truth. Stalin did it. Mussolini did it. Trump’s doing it now. Here’s how they game reality. ⬇️

Wenn mich eine ganz normale Supermarktkassiererin in gesenktem Ton anspricht, ob es mir in den USA noch gefällt. Ob ich wüsste, was hier vor sich gehe. Und, ob mir klar sei, wie verängstigt sie alle seien. Dann ist das eine zumindest meiner Erfahrung nach beispiellose Situation.